Assembling device for card cases



Feb. 7, 1933. c, N 1,896,634

ASSEMBLING DEVICE FOR CARD CASES Filed Dec. 8, 1927 I T? 19 45- I} 0 l/mrlali'rfaa Patented Feb. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES CHARLES LENEAN'I', or NEW YORK, N. Y.

ASSEMBLING DEVICE FOR CARD. CASES Application filed December 8, 1927. Serial 1T0. 1238,51 1.

This invention relates to assembling devices for card cases such as is shown in my pending application for patent Serial No. 199,621, filed June 17 1927 Patent No. 1,67 6,338, July 7 10, 1928, and has for its primary object and in the assemblage of'parts of the outer cover or holder for card cases of that type having a plurality of leaves or sections secured within the holder and provided with transparent windows formingadditional card receiving pockets. Such device in a practical embodiment thereof includes a base of the proper dimensions upon which the parts of the card case cover are adapted to be arranged and presser strips hingedly attached to each edge of said base and so constructed that they may be folded inwardly without interference to lie in the same plane whereby the marginal edge portions of the outer flexible sheet of the cover will be folded inwardly upon the marginal edges of the inner pocket forming sheet, which edges have been supplied with a suitable adhesive gum. It was found in practice, that due to the inherent tendency of the folded edges of the outer cover sheet to expand and resume their former positions, it was necessary to apply a weight upon the same tightly down upon the surface of the base. It is an important object of my present improvements to provide means whereby thenecessityof thus weighting the presser strips will be obviated.

In a preferred form of my present improvements, the same preferably consists in the provision, at the opposite ends of each of the presser members, of means automatically coacting as said members'are folded in superposed relation upon the base whereby they are mutually interlocked with each other and held against upward movement under the pressure of the folded material. 7 p To the above end, in one practical construction, I provide the metal face plates attached presser strips of the device in order to hold the to. the side presser strips with projecting end portions having recesses or notches therein and studs carried by the end presser strips adapted to enter said notches and frictionally coacting with the lower edges thereof whereby the several strips will be securely held with their upper surfaces in a common horizontal plane.

\Vith the above and'other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved assem'bling device for card cases, and in the form, construction, and relative arrangement of its several parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and subsequently incorporated in the subjoined claim.

In the drawing, wherein I have disclosed several simple and practical embodiments of the invention, and in which similar refer- I ence characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device provided with one form of my present invention;

' Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken'on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevation showing one of the end presser members in a raised position;

Fig. L is a similar fragmentary view illustrating a modified formof the device but showing both the side and end strips-infolded position; I

Fig. 5 is an end elevation thereof;

Fig. 6 is a detail horizontal section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4; I

Figs. 7 and 8 are detail views similar to Figs. 4 and 5 showing another alternative form of the invention, and

Fig. 9 is a top plan view of the latter construction.

Referring in detail to the drawing, and for the present more particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 thereof, 5 designates the base member which'may consist of a rectangular slab of wood or metal of the proper predetermined length and width. To the opposite longitudinal edges of this base member 5 the press erstrips 6 are attached. As herein shown,

to the outer side face of each of these strips a metal plate 7 is secured by the screws 8, said plate projecting beyond the opposite ends of the strip 6 which is of somewhat less length than the length of the base 5 and terminates in spaced relation to each end edge of said base. The metal plates 7 are hingedly connected as at 9 to similar plates 10 securely attached to the opposite longitudinal side faces of the base 5 by the screws 11. It will of course, be understood that if desired, instead of providing the continuous plates 7 and 10 and a continuous connecting hinge 9, I may connect the strips 6 to the base 5 by means of suitably spaced hinge plates or provide any other desired form of hinge means which will permit of the strips 6 being moved from an outwardly extending position with relation to the base 5 to a position above and in superposed relation thereto as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing.

Additional presser members or strips 12 are similarly hingedly attached to the opposite end of the base 5 as indicated at 13.

The side presser strips 6 at each of their ends and the end presser strips 12 at each of their ends are provided with the obliquely inclined mating surfaces 14 and 15 respectively, adapted for substantial contact with each other when the presser strips are folded inwardly on the base.

Each of the face plates 7 at each of its projecting ends is provided with a longitudinally extending notch or recess 16 having a lower curved or cam edge 17. It will be noted that the plate 7 extends over the strip 12, and is free of the same. Each of the end presser members 12 is provided at its opposite ends with laterally projecting pins or studs 18 preferably terminating in enlarged heads and these pins are adapted to enter the respective slots or recesses 16 in the face plate 7 of the presser strip 6 when said strips are folded inwardly upon the base member 5. The shank of the pins 18 enters the notch 16, and the enlarged head is exterior b0 the notch and engages the plate when the pin is within the notch. The action described is automatic in that as the end presser strips come down, their pins enter the notches of the plates of the adjacent presser strips, and as all the presser strips descend to their final position, a locking action of pin and notch takes place, and the pressure of the compressed card cases cannot open the presser strips.

In card cases of that type having a plurality of transparent card receiving pockets hingedly secured within an outer cover or holder, the cover member is composed of an outer face sheet 19 of leather or other composition material to the inner face of which a flexible lining sheet 20 is secured. A flexible pocket forming wall 21 is arranged over this lining sheet. The outer face sheet 19 is of somewhat greater width than the lining sheet 20 and the pocket formin sheet 21 so that the side and end marginal edge portions 22 of the sheet 19 project beyond the corresponding edges of the lining sheet wh n the several superimposed sheets are arranged upon the base 5. 'lherefore, it will be under stood that when the presser strips 6 and 12 are in their open positions extending outwardly from the base 5, the marginal portions 22 of the face sheet 19 of the cover will extend outwardly over the hinges 9 and 13. Before the pocket wall or sheet 21 is arranged in place. the opposite longitudinal side edges thereof on one face of said sheet are provided with a suitable liquid cement or adhesive coating and the upper surfaces of the marginal parts 22 of the sheet 19 are coated with a similar adhesive.

After the several parts of the cover have been arranged in position on the base 5 as above explained, the side strips 6 are first folded inwardly to the position seen in Fig. 2 of the drawing, thereby folding the side marginal edges 22 of the face sheet 19 inwardly over and upon the corresponding edges of the lining sheet 20 on the pocket wall 21. The end presser members 12 are then similarly folded inwardly over the base so that the end marginal portions 22 of the face sheet of the cover are folded inwardly.

As these end members 12 are moved to folded position between the ends of the side memhere 6, the projecting lugs or pins 18 on the ends of said side member move into the notches or recesses 16 in the projecting ends of the face plates 7 of the presser strips 6. [is will be clearly apparent from Fig. 3 of the drawing, as these pins come into frictional contact with the higher portions of the curved edges 17 of the notches or recesses 16, considerable manual force must be applied to move the presser members 12 inwardly and downwardly into the plane of the side presser members 6. Preferably the pins 18 are rigidly connected with the end members 12, and of such length that they may have a slight resilient yielding action so that when said pins finally enter the inner ends of the notches or recesses 16 and return to their normal positions, they will frictionally bear upon the inner ends of the curved edges 17 of said notches. in this manner, it will be apparent that the several presser strips (3 and 12 will be securely held in their folded positions against relative movement and it is not necessary to apply additional pressure or place a weight upon said members in order to secure the necessary pressure of said members on the inwardly folded marginal edges of the face sheet 19 of the cover.

in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 of the drawing 1 have shown another form of the device in which the notches or recesses 16 in the ends of the face plates 7 may be provided with obliquely inclined lower edges 17 against which lugs 18 integrally formed with the metal face plates 12 on the presser members 12 frictionally ride, said lugs being angularly bent and extending at right angles to the plane of the face plate 12. Each of these lugs is also preferably provided with an angularly extending finger 18 which is adapted to extend below the lower edge of the notch or recess 16 in frictional contact against the outer surface of the face plate 7 on the side strip 6.

In Figs. 7, 8 and 9 ofthe drawing I have shown still another alternative form of the device in which a-short metal plate 12 is secured to each end of the end presser memhers 12 and adjacent the end face of said member is formed with a rib or enlargement 25 which is centrally provided with an angularly extending lug 18 having an inner inclined face 18. The rib 25 and the lug 18 thereof provide a recess or seat indicated at 18 at the inner end of the inclined edge 18 on the lug which is adapted to receive the end edge of the face plate 7 on the side presser member 6 as clearly shown in Fig. 9 of the drawing. Thus when the side and end presser members are moved to folded position, the lugs'18" will exert a camming action on the end edges of the plates 7 and force the same inwardly into tight frictional engagement against the walls of the seats 18 In the two alternative constructions above described, the frictional resistance due to the coaction between the lugs on the end members 12 and the face plates of the member 6 will provide sufficient resistance against any tendency of the presser members to move relative to each other from their folded positions under the expansion of the folded materials compressed between said members and the base.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that by means of a very simple addition to the device disclosed in my pending application above referred to, I have materially enhanced the efficiency and serviceability of such device. The present invention results in the application of substantially uniform pressure throughout the length of each of the presser strips upon the inwardly folded marginal edges of the facing sheet of the cover member and by the elimination of the necessity of a continuously applied manual pressure upon said strips or the application of weights thereto, I have succeeded in further decreasing labor costs in the manufacture of suchdevices. Also by means of the invention, it is evident that such card case covers can be produced with the greatest accuracy and uniformity of the the specific forms above described for the purpose of attaining the desired end. It is therefore,to be understood that these illustrated constructions are largely suggestive and that the device might also be incorporated in various other alternative structures. Ac cordingly, the privilege is reserved of resorting to all such legitimate changes in the form, construction, and relative arrangement of the several elements as may be fairly embodied within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

I claim:

An assembling device for card cases having a base member, side presser strips and end presser strips for making marginal contact with the side presser strips, and hinge members hingedly connecting the side presser and end presser strips to the edge of the base for permitting infolding of the strips onto the base; rigid metal plates fixed to the side presser strips and extending over the lateral sides of the end presser stri ms. and extending pins on the end presser strips projecting therefrom, and said metal plates having cam slots in the extending portions thereof for permitting the pins to enter said slots as the end presser strips are hingedly moved onto the base plate, whereby to retain the side presser strips thereof in position on the base plate under the resistance offered by the material held on the base plate bv the presser strips.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name hereto.

CHARLES LENFANT.

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